Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the Lincoln-Washington battalion of Americans suffered its heaviest blow of the war. Caught behind the enemy lines as the Rightists smashed through, the battalion tried to fight its way back in small groups. Nine men attempted to swim the swift Ebro River, three got across. At week's end only 150 of the 450 Americans had been accounted...
...should die before he had written down his thoughts on the subjects that have chiefly interested him. Since these turn out to be mainly literature and the theatre, most of The Slimming Up is given over to studied critical comment: opinions on the prose of Dryden and Swift, on the literary value of the writings of English philosophers, on professional writers as opposed to amateurs, on the reasons for the egotism of actors, on the pernicious influence of Bernard Shaw on the English stage, on the excitement of rehearsals and the confused & troubling experience of first nights. Maugham...
...BEFORE I WAKE-Sherwood King - Simon & Schuster ($2). The chauffeur of a rich Long Island lawyer, involved in a murder conspiracy, finds himself on trial for the murder of a man he did not kill. Plot: clever; style: swift, spare...
...series of swift moving scoring drives featured by deft lateral passes, the visitors romped to an early lead and left at half-time with a one-sided 27-0 margin. Apparently discouraged, the Crimson was unable to check the English parade of scores that 23 additional tallies in the last 35 minute period...
...Director McLeod: ''We've got a good cast, a swell crew and a good story. If anybody gets out of line, it will be you." Actress Bennett: "What do you do about people who get out of line?" Director McLeod: "I give 'em a good swift kick right where they need it." Topper, which turned out to be as funny as one of McLeod's sketches, had all its lines in place...